Dr J. Lea Beness

Departmental Convenor

Profile

Educated at the University of New England, Dr Lea Beness is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History and a member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre. She is currently the editor of Macquarie 's journal Ancient History: Resources for Teachers. Her research interests focus primarily on the politics of the Late Roman Republic. She is chief investigator of the Macquarie Dictionary of Roman Biography with her partner Associate Professor Tom Hillard.

'Apollo weeps-the crisis of 129 BC. Insights from the Roman Biographical Dictionary Project' (Lecture, Classical Association of New South Wales, The Annual General Meeting) (2004)

'Early Roman Interests in Egypt: the second century BCE' (conference paper for 'Images of Egypt: Cultural Interaction and Identity in Ancient Egypt from the Pharoahs to the Arab Conquest', Macquarie University) (2004)

'Inference and Resonance: Modern Women on the Ancient World' (Seminar paper, University of New South Wales History Seminar) (2004)

The Gracchi and the Italian Landscape' (Lecture for the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum, Canberra) (2007)

'Underwater Archaeology: The UNE Connection' (Lecture to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Museum of Antiquities at the University of New England and the opening of the exhibition entitled 'Underwater Archaeology: Seas, lakes and rivers of Italy' jointly hosted by the Museum of Antiquities [UNE], the Istituto Italiano di Cultura [Sydney], the Dixson Library [UNE] and the School of Humanities [UNE]) (2009)

'Insulting Cornelia' (Conference paper for 'Culture, Identity and Politics in the Ancient Mediterranean World', an international celebration of the work of Professor Erich Gruen at the Australian National University, Canberra) (2011)

'"Deficient in logic, but with the gift of inference": Pioneering Women of Ancient World Studies' (the Inaugural Beryl Rawson Memorial Lecture at the Australian National University, Canberra ) (2011)